POLS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: John Stuart Mill, Modernization Theory
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To test this: is it predictable or not across time. Cultural modernization theory: builds off modernization theory of money and economics changes will affect culture independent of the money and will have their own affect on political institutions. Survey data from the 70s and 80s, mostly europe and data. What leaves to a civic culture or not. When people have safety and security they want things like longer lavations, cleaner air. Post materialist values: the father along the country goes in this the better democracy is when smaller numbers are effected by needing the basics, there are. High levels of political discussion, viewed as a positive thing to talk about politics is mostly likely in a democracy. The way protestanst stuck out in the 1800s is not how they stick out now. All things that link to religion are all time bound. Protestant making states democratic is important until wwi.
